Jacob Stewart

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Husband Jacob Stewart ^{1 2}

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         Father: Matthias Stewart (      -      ) 2
         Mother: [Unk] Snyder (      -      ) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Stewart

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Fayette Co, PA

The Stewart family are found by the records to have been connected with the history of the Tyrone Church some ten years prior to the date of their land patents. A deed is upon record reciting that on Nov. 19, 1785, Edward Rice, of Tyrone, sold to Jacob Stewart, of the county of York, Pennsylvania, three hundred and fifty-three acres of land,-consideration five hundred pounds. On May 12, 1787, Jacob Stewart received a patent for three hundred and ninety-four acres. The tract of three hundred and fifty-three acres was purchased by Edward Rice of John Stephens, April 23, 1773, and Dec. 22, 1791, Jacob Stewart sold the entire three hundred and ninety-four acres to Jacob Strickler.

He was a justice of the peace for many years, being first appointed to that office March 31, 1787. The people of Tyrone township and the vicinity considered him an excellent adviser, and many disputes which would otherwise have gone into the courts were adjusted amicably through his influence and arbitration.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 786.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 875.